Reading through the news coverage of the Microsoft Ireland warrant case, one thing stands out: nearly everyone agrees that the existing system for managing cross-border law enforcement requests for data ...

A brief word in response to Peter Margulies’s point about the costs of my proposal to give up the use of PRISM for “foreign affairs” surveillance. He believes the costs of my proposal would be too high....

President Obama’s waving the encryption white flag to Apple wasn’t the only big “going dark” news this week—and it’s not the only bad news for law enforcement. The courts continue to struggle with encryp...

In a Washington Post story on October 7 (that I just saw), Andrea Peterson writes about the inability of government authorities and privacy advocates to agree on the meaning of “strong encryption.”

While the ECJ’s decision in Schrems v. Data Commissioner suggests that reforms will be necessary to save the US-EU safe harbor framework, both EU officials and U.S. privacy advocates have sometimes urged...

The New York Times reported on October 11, 2015 that The Obama administration has backed down in its bitter dispute with Silicon Valley over the encryption of data on iPhones and other digital devices,...

Editor's Note: The 2013 coup in Egypt did not, as the story so often goes in the West, lead to the end of the Islamist role in Egyptian politics. Rather, it led the new regime to crack down on the Muslim...

In my last post, I argued that surveillance reform is the only way to ensure continued data flows between the US and the European Union. In this post, I will begin to explore whether there is a practical...